Project management

Ägypten2 - Free Software Sphinx-Clients

The project with the
Codename Ägypten2 is the successor
of the project Ägypten
with the central task to considerably extend
the graphical user interfaces and to implement new
functionalities.

The same team was contracted again,
Intevation (projekt management and quality assurance),
Klarälvdalens Datakonsult
(KMail and other KDE component) and
g10 Code (all
crypto modules).

Projekt start was December 2003; official and successful
completion was in November 2004.
The project management team consisted of two persons, the lead was with
Jan-Oliver Wagner with Bernhard Reiter as backup.
The development and QS team counted 6 heads.

KDE 3.3 already carries all GUI components

Since KDE 3.3 all these
improvements and extensions are
inherent parts of KDE. In combination with the corresponding
GnuPG components,
Ägypten-2 has reached the status of
a recommended product in the
Sphinx interoperability tests
as the only solution running on GNU/Linux and also being the
only Free Software solution in general.

Ägypten-2 is an important element in the BSI's migration to a mixed
desktop environment since it supports interoperable Email
communication across various operating systems in a comfortable way.

The project closely cooperated with the KDE developer community
and especially the KDE-PIM project, PIM stands for
personal information management. KDE already provides a lot of
products for this task, e.g. Kontact bundles the following components
under a common graphical user interface: KMail (Email),
KOrganizer (calendar, appointments) and KAddressbook (contacts).